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  • Published: 1 February 2022
  • ISBN: 9781647290733
  • Imprint: Vertical Inc
  • Format: Paperback
  • RRP: $27.99

A School Frozen in Time 4



On a snowy school day like any other, classmates and childhood friends Hiroshi and Mizuki arrive at school to find the campus eerily empty. Before long, they find themselves trapped inside with six other friends, and even stranger, all the clocks have stopped at a very specific moment--the exact time when a former classmate jumped off the school roof to their death three months earlier. It turns out that this departed friend is their way out of their current predicament and may even be among their group...but no one can remember who it was that took their life on that sad day. The students must face themselves and their past memories to piece together the identity of this suicide victim or risk a similar fate--with their lives lost and forgotten inside these frigid school walls.

From two star creators Naoshi Arakawa (Your Lie in April) and award winning writer Mizuki Tsujimura (Anime Supremacy!) comes a psychological horror story filled with twists, turns, and hard truths about the lives of high school students and the pressures they face in modern society.

Tick. Tock. As the clock starts again, Takano and his remaining classmates must face their fears and traumas, still trapped within the frigid walls of their school. Takano finds himself back at the origin point of this icy nightmare: the last day of the school festival. There, he finally remembers who it was that took their own life, and the surprising identity of that person begins to uncover the mysteries that have plagued Takano and his friends.

But answering the question that’s hung dangerously over their heads will reveal one last puzzle to solve—and if they don’t act fast, they just might lose another precious friend…

Final Volume!

  • Published: 1 February 2022
  • ISBN: 9781647290733
  • Imprint: Vertical Inc
  • Format: Paperback
  • RRP: $27.99

About the authors

Naoshi Arakawa

Naoshi Arakawa is a manga creator living in Japan.

Mizuki Tsujimura

MIZUKI TSUJIMURA is the winner of the Japan Booksellers' Award and the Naoki prize, two highly influential awards in Japan. Her novel LONELY CASTLE IN THE MIRROR sold one million copies in Japan. She has writtten several mystery novels and is at work on a new novel. She lives in Japan.